Azor...here is a history lesson someone needs to conduct with Trump...Bannon and Flynn......
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In interview, Trump says it's unfair that US buys Mercedes but Germany buys no Chevrolets.
GM purchased a German auto manufacturer in the early 30s using devalued dollars due to the depression....a company called Opel.....
GM then earned massive war time earnings for building trucks and cars for the German Wehrmacht during WW2 AND at the end of WW2....charged the US government for bombing damages to their factories which were making war equipment for the Nazi's.....
JUMP forward.....to the 2008 period and you will read about constant German union statements from the German union IG Metall that GM was draining out of Opel all the profits and not investing in new equipment and laying off workers.
THEN suddenly GM decided to build the Chevy Cruze and reduce production of all other German Opel models and further reductions of workers and attempting to sell off all the land and factories to increase the US profit line....
German unions forced the issue about the total lack of GM involvement outside of taking out profits to the detriment of German workers...and the German government stepped in and basically told GM to either repay all of their tax breaks and leave Germany or invest in the company.
GM not wanting to lose the EU market decided to invest...pulled in a new creative design team...came out with really well designed and KEY well produced quality wise cars and now are rolling again after basically all most crashing the company....
AND pulled the GM Chevy name back out of EU....
By The Way....check this book from 1950 written by US trust busters working during WW2 to break up German cartels.....I spent years trying to find a single copy as it disappeared from bookstores almost instantly when released. Found one in a used book store....
All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System
A scathing attack on Wall Street’s illegal ties to Nazi Germany before WWII—and the postwar whitewashing of Nazi business leaders by the US government
https://www.amazon.com/All-Honorable.../dp/B01DOU85YU
Prior to World War II, German industry was controlled by an elite group who had used their money and influence to help bring the Nazi Party to power. After the Allies had successfully occupied Germany and removed the Third Reich, the process of reconstructing the devastated nation’s economy began under supervision of the US government. James Stewart Martin, who had assisted the Allied forces in targeting key areas of German industry for aerial bombardment, returned to Germany as the director of the Division for Investigation of Cartels and External Assets in American Military Government, a position he held until 1947. Martin was to break up the industrial machine these cartels controlled and investigate their ties to Wall Street. What he discovered was shocking.
Many American corporations had done business with German corporations who helped fund the Nazi Party, despite knowing what their money was supporting. Effectively, Wall Street’s greed had led them to aid Hitler and hinder the Allied effort. Martin’s efforts at decartelization were unsuccessful though, largely due to hindrance from his superior officer, an investment banker in peacetime. In conclusion, he said, “We had not been stopped in Germany by German business. We had been stopped in Germany by American business.”
This exposé on economic warfare, Wall Street, and America’s military industrial complex includes a new introduction by Christopher Simpson, author of Blowback:America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy, and a new foreword from investigative journalist Hank Albarelli.
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